Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Cinemagogue: The Sturgeon Queens
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

This documentary tells the history of one food store on the Lower East Side of New York City, Russ and Daughters. Interspersed throughout the story is a tale of Jews in America and the rise, fall, and rise again of the Lower East Side. Jewish music punctuates the story, and anecdotes are evoked from famous customers, such as Calvin Trillin, Morley Safer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Faculty Recital Series: Anne Laver, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Bach Cantata 29, BWV 29 (excerpts)
Bach Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974
William Albright Flights of Fancy: Ballet for Organ (excerpts)
Christian Heinrich Rinck Flute Concerto, Op. 182 (excerpts)
Louis Vierne Symphony no. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 28

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Datsik, with Ookay + Drezo, Etcetera, Benny Yella
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Works by Davana Wilkins
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

Jazz at the Plaza: Scott Dennis
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
LeMoyne Plaza
1135 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Joyce Ucci, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Franz Schubert Sonata in A, D 959: A Journey for All Seasons.

Guest Artist Series: Lucy Shelton, soprano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Winner of two Walter W. Naumburg Awards—as chamber musician and solo recitalist—soprano Lucy Shelton continues to enjoy an international career, bringing her dramatic vocalism and brilliant interpretive skills to repertoire of all periods. An esteemed exponent of 20th- and 21st-century repertory, she has worked closely with today's composers and premiered more than 100 works. Notable among these are song cycles by Elliott Carter, Oliver Knussen, Louis Karchin, and James Yannatos; chamber works by Carter, Joseph Schwantner, Mario Davidovsky, Stephen Albert, Lewis Spratlan, Charles Wuorinen, Gabriella Lena Frank, Bruce Adolphe, Alexander Goehr, Poul Ruders, Anne Le Baron, and Thomas Flaherty; orchestral works by Knussen, Albert, Schwantner, David Del Tredici, Gerard Grisey, Ezra Laderman, Sally Beamish, Virko Baley, and Ned Rorem; and an opera by Robert Zuidam. In recent seasons, Shelton has premiered works written for her by Shulamit Ran, Dan Visconti, Frank Stemper, Kathleen Ginther, Tamar Muskal, and Fang Man.

Master Class Program: The Art of Unaccompanied Song

Bryan Sweeney Within a Dream
Brianna Lombino, soprano

Nich Hoffman The Unofficial Guide to a Good Day
Kamala Sloss, soprano

Jane Strubling Tsunami
Heidi Synn, mezzo soprano

Kaziah White Goblin Courting Song
Daniel Fields, tenor

Trevor David Rött The Iron Bell
Kyle Seniw, tenor

Ming Chai Penelope, from Ulysses
Jake Goz, tenor

Cody Alexander Paul The Ocean
Sasha Turner, soprano

Mario Pietro Orphee
Sean Jordan, countertenor

Jeremy Santiago-Horseman Lux Aeterna
Robert Dunlap, tenor

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Datsik, with Ookay + Drezo, Etcetera, Benny Yella
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will come to Syracuse as part of a brand new North American Tour. Critics are raving that this breathtaking production is "bigger and better than ever before" and features a brilliant new scenic design by Paul Brown, Tony Award-winning original costume design by Maria Björnson, lighting design by Tony Award-winner Paule Constable, new choreography by Scott Ambler, and new staging by director Laurence Connor. The production, overseen by Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh, boasts many exciting special effects including the show's legendary chandelier. The beloved story and thrilling score—with songs like "Music of the Night," "All I Ask Of You," and "Masquerade"—will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making this Phantom one of the largest productions now on tour.

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Passion Play
Redhouse

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hailed by The New Yorker's John Lahr as "extraordinary," "bold," and "inventive," Passion Play takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Sarah Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish.

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Preview: The Christians
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Do you have the courage to change your heart? Pastor Paul is much-loved and much-respected, but he has a difficult sermon to deliver. What will be the impact of his words on his loyal congregation? What consequences for his family? For himself? Playwright-to-watch Lucas Hnath invites people of all faiths, believers and non-believers, to engage in a conversation about the seemingly insurmountable distance between us. Set in a contemporary mega-church and performed as Sunday service with sermons, scripture, and a full choir, The Christians has quickly become one of the most talked about new plays in the country.

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The Spitfire Grill: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A soul-satisfying, country-flavored work of theatrical imagination, The Spitfire Grill glows with an abundance of warmth, spirit, and goodwill. A feisty parolee named Percy follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. Aged and troubled, Hannah would like to sell the Grill, but there are no takers in the forgotten town of Gilead. A simple idea proposed by Percy brings new life to the Grill and renewed hope to the people of the town, including one long gone but not so far away. A graceful and compelling story buoyed by soaring and instantly infectious melodies.

Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

Works by Davana Wilkins
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Vintage Pop-Up Tour
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free with museum admission
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join us for a unique evening of art-viewing through a fashion-specific lens. Pair the works on display with authentic fashions from the mid-20th century and find inspiration for your spring look rooted in the stunning exhibitions. This docent-led tour will include stops in "Helen Levitt: In the Street," "From Paris to Syracuse," "Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea," "Responsive Eyes," and "Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud." In each gallery, you will learn about the exhibition and encounter a look inspired by the artwork. Plus, try on some vintage accessories and snap a photo at our pop-up selfie booth!

Works by Davana Wilkins
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

There will be an artist reception this evening 7:00-10:00 pm.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

Gallery Talk: Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since 2013, Ben Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide, photographing visitors as they raise their smart phones and cameras to take pictures of of these sites. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. Join us for a talk with the artist.

Ensemble Series: SU Chamber Ensembles
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Start Making Sense (Talking Heads Tribute)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cruel April: Jane Springer and Caitlin Vance, poets
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Readings start at 6:00 pm, followed by a reception and informal dialogue with poets. Refreshments will be served.

Both Springer and Vance are featured poets in Point of Contact's 2016 poetry collection, Corresponding Voices (Vol. 9).

Jane Springer was born in Lawrenceburg, TN, and raised in the South. Springer earned a Ph.D. at Florida State University. Dear Blackbird, a poetry collection she published in 2007, won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize from the University of Utah Press. Springer published her second collection, Murder Ballad, in 2012 and received the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. She has also honored a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, Best American Poetry Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. Springer is now teaching literature and creative writing at Hamilton College in Central New York.

Caitlin Vance is currently a Syracuse University student in Creative Writing MFA program. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Tin House, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, The Literary Review, NightBlock, Spoon River Poetry Review, and BOAAT.

Free parking is available the night of the reading in the Syracuse University lot on the corner of West Street and West Fayette Street.

Dead Silent: Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $34.75 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

It's 1927 and local radio personality Nevelle Haspin invites you to the broadcast of a gala reception for silent film diva Lorraine Bowes who is making a film portraying hometown hero and notorious WWI spy Florence Goode a.k.a. Hata Mahma. Joining Lorraine will be her leading man, if he's sober, Roland DeHay, and Lorraine's agent, Harold "Hawk" Toohey. Arriving without an invitation is nationally syndicated gossip columnist Helena Handbasquet. Be careful. These celebrities autograph with poisoned pens.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will come to Syracuse as part of a brand new North American Tour. Critics are raving that this breathtaking production is "bigger and better than ever before" and features a brilliant new scenic design by Paul Brown, Tony Award-winning original costume design by Maria Björnson, lighting design by Tony Award-winner Paule Constable, new choreography by Scott Ambler, and new staging by director Laurence Connor. The production, overseen by Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh, boasts many exciting special effects including the show's legendary chandelier. The beloved story and thrilling score—with songs like "Music of the Night," "All I Ask Of You," and "Masquerade"—will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making this Phantom one of the largest productions now on tour.

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Passion Play
Redhouse

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hailed by The New Yorker's John Lahr as "extraordinary," "bold," and "inventive," Passion Play takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Sarah Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish.

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Preview: The Christians
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Do you have the courage to change your heart? Pastor Paul is much-loved and much-respected, but he has a difficult sermon to deliver. What will be the impact of his words on his loyal congregation? What consequences for his family? For himself? Playwright-to-watch Lucas Hnath invites people of all faiths, believers and non-believers, to engage in a conversation about the seemingly insurmountable distance between us. Set in a contemporary mega-church and performed as Sunday service with sermons, scripture, and a full choir, The Christians has quickly become one of the most talked about new plays in the country.

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The Liar
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

David Ives' adaptation of La Menteur by Pierre Corneille. Sparkling wit, intricate lies, and romantic hijinks combine in this clever comedy from one of the world's most influential playwrights.

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Eurydice
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

The Spitfire Grill: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A soul-satisfying, country-flavored work of theatrical imagination, The Spitfire Grill glows with an abundance of warmth, spirit, and goodwill. A feisty parolee named Percy follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. Aged and troubled, Hannah would like to sell the Grill, but there are no takers in the forgotten town of Gilead. A simple idea proposed by Percy brings new life to the Grill and renewed hope to the people of the town, including one long gone but not so far away. A graceful and compelling story buoyed by soaring and instantly infectious melodies.

Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Friday, April 8, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Rural and small town landscapes.

Skewed Perspectives by Anne Muntges
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Gallery will be transformed into a miniature world, filled with hundreds of drawings on 3D objects. Artist Anne Muntges will manifest a home environment creating atmosphere and structure through constructed elements and decorations. These elements directly inform her drawing and sculpture so that the pieces challenge the way we think about the spaces we inhabit.

Black Utopias
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Co-curated by Dr. Joan Bryant, associate professor in the African American Studies Department, and Dr. Lucy Mulroney, interim senior director of the Special Collections Research Center, "Black Utopias" commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the best-selling narrative of one of the most prominent men of the Civil Rights era.

This anniversary holds special significance for Syracuse University because the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center is home to the records of Grove Press, the avant-garde publisher of the Autobiography. Grove hailed the book as one of its "most important" publications. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out before it was released in October 1965.

"Black Utopias" takes the personal transformations that form the narrative arc of Malcolm X's Autobiography as the framework for exploring a range of utopian visions that have shaped Black American life. Although utopias are, by definition, the stuff of dreams, the examples presented in this exhibition are firmly rooted in historical experiences of subjugation, inequality, and injustice. They are at once visionary and modest endeavors to craft worlds of freedom, unity, power, equality, and beauty.

The exhibit will feature the handwritten letter that Malcolm X sent to Alex Haley during his pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as other unique and rare materials from the collections. It includes documents by little-known individuals and such prominent figures as W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Madam C. J. Walker, James Ford, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Curvy: Artwork by Danielle White
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

World Views
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

William Sullivan: photography
Todd Conover: sculptural jewelry
Robert Colley: photography
Ken Nichols: ceramics

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

A Night of Expression
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: $3
Skybarn
Syracuse University South Campus, Syracuse

A special performance by Syracuse University's Raices Dance Troupe with guest dancers from the local community including La Casita's Danza Troupe.

Colgate University Chamber Singers
Ryan Endris, conductor

Price: Free
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A concert of sacred and secular a cappella music. Repertoire will included the music of Barber, Bruckner, Hogan, Palestrina, and others.

The Keller Williams Kwahtro, featuring Gibb Droll, Danton Boller and Rodney Holmes
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

My Fair Lady
Syracuse Opera

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion, the timeless classic My Fair Lady is set in Edwardian London, where Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, encounters Eliza Doolittle, an unruly flower vendor in a street market. The Professor wagers with his friend and colleague Colonel Pickering that he can transform Eliza into a lady by teaching her proper English and enunciation. Eliza agrees to speech lessons and moves into the Higgins household, where the transformation begins. Soon enough, the willful professor is ready to put his experiment to the test by introducing Eliza to the unsuspecting upper crust of London society. A witty, endearing plot and the classic musical numbers that include "Wouldn't It Be Lovely?", "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "On the Street Where You Live."

Poet Joan Murray
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Joan Murray is a poet, writer, and playwright, whose books include Swimming for the Ark: New & Selected Poems 1990-2015(White Pine Press Distinguished Poets Series), Looking for the Parade (W. W. Norton), Dancing on the Edge and Queen of the Mist (both from Beacon Press). She has contributed poetry, fiction, and essays to such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Sun, and The Village Voice. She is also a National Poetry Series Winner, a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and winner of the Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Award.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will come to Syracuse as part of a brand new North American Tour. Critics are raving that this breathtaking production is "bigger and better than ever before" and features a brilliant new scenic design by Paul Brown, Tony Award-winning original costume design by Maria Björnson, lighting design by Tony Award-winner Paule Constable, new choreography by Scott Ambler, and new staging by director Laurence Connor. The production, overseen by Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh, boasts many exciting special effects including the show's legendary chandelier. The beloved story and thrilling score—with songs like "Music of the Night," "All I Ask Of You," and "Masquerade"—will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making this Phantom one of the largest productions now on tour.

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The Sunshine Boys
Central New York Playhouse
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

In Neil Simon's comedy, Al and Willie as "Lewis and Clark" were top-billed vaudevillians for over 40 years. Now they aren't even speaking. When CBS requests them for a "History of Comedy" retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.

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The Liar
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

David Ives' adaptation of La Menteur by Pierre Corneille. Sparkling wit, intricate lies, and romantic hijinks combine in this clever comedy from one of the world's most influential playwrights.

Read a review!

Jeffrey
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Whether catering a ditzy socialite's "Hoe-down for AIDS" or cruising at a funeral; at the gym or at the annual Gay Pride Parade or in the libidinous hands of a father-confessor, Jeffrey finds the pursuit of love and just plain old physical gratification to be the number one preoccupation of his times—and the source of plenty of hilarity. By Paul Rudnick. Mature themes. Presented in association with the Friends of Dorothy House.

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Eurydice
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

Passion Play
Redhouse

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hailed by The New Yorker's John Lahr as "extraordinary," "bold," and "inventive," Passion Play takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Sarah Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish.

Read a Review!

The Christians
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Do you have the courage to change your heart? Pastor Paul is much-loved and much-respected, but he has a difficult sermon to deliver. What will be the impact of his words on his loyal congregation? What consequences for his family? For himself? Playwright-to-watch Lucas Hnath invites people of all faiths, believers and non-believers, to engage in a conversation about the seemingly insurmountable distance between us. Set in a contemporary mega-church and performed as Sunday service with sermons, scripture, and a full choir, The Christians has quickly become one of the most talked about new plays in the country.

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The Spitfire Grill: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A soul-satisfying, country-flavored work of theatrical imagination, The Spitfire Grill glows with an abundance of warmth, spirit, and goodwill. A feisty parolee named Percy follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. Aged and troubled, Hannah would like to sell the Grill, but there are no takers in the forgotten town of Gilead. A simple idea proposed by Percy brings new life to the Grill and renewed hope to the people of the town, including one long gone but not so far away. A graceful and compelling story buoyed by soaring and instantly infectious melodies.

Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Etchings and Paintings: Works by James Skvarch
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Rural and small town landscapes.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"As Bad As I Wanna Be: Reimaging Black Womanhood" features the work of Nina Buxembaum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, and Delita Martin. These emerging mixed-media artists interrogate femininity, gender, and race in their work. Each artist's creative practice combines a mix of personal and collective narratives exploring the role of Black women's bodies and it's continual subjugation through the appropriation of existing material culture.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Works by Davana Wilkins
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins: Works of Arnaldo Roche Rabell
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Blue of Ruins features Roche's "blue" paintings and drawings made between 2007 and 2016 that use techniques such as brush drawing, scraping and rubbing on the material's surface to explore what is left of the subject. Many of the works included are still-lifes and the self-portraits, allowing Roche to comment on both the wholesomeness of the artist as subject and his relationship with memory and the world of objects. The exhibition aims to trace the artist's conceptual evolvement from full color to blue, and from an affirmative to an exploded subject.

Arnaldo Roche-Rabell (Puerto Rico, 1955) received his Bachelor's and Master's in Fine Arts from The Art Institute in Chicago. Roche-Rabell's work has been exhibited individually and collectively in museums and galleries like the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (The Puerto Rico Museum of Art), the Chicago Cultural Center, and El Museo del Barrio in New York City. His work is in the collections of many prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute in Chicago, and the Bronx Museum.

Opening: People Who Came to My House: Portraits by Syracuse Area Photographers
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

Photographers usually venture out into the world to find their subjects. This time, a group of Syracuse area photographers allowed the world to come to them. Their portraits of service providers, delivery people, and sales people, along with brief biographical details, peer inside the intricate connections and communities of the Syracuse area. Curated by Ben Altman and Syracuse photographer Bob Gates, the project challenges us to think about the many ways in which we depend on one another for the necessities and comforts of our daily lives. It also creates a portrait of the home life of each photographer.

Exhibiting photographers: Ben Altman, Justine Fenu, Bob Gates, Diana Green, D.J. Igelsrud, Diane Lansing, Marilu Lopez-Fretts, Brenda Mohammad, Michael O'Connor, Sarah Pralle, Steve Reiter, Rosalie Spitzer, Kerry Thurston and Diana Whiting

Exhibiting filmmakers: Courtney Rile and Michael Barletta (Daylight Blue Media)

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Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

According to multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk, her work "considers the idea that symbolic and ideological systems can be activated and re-imagined through collaboration, imaginative play and masquerade." Woolfalk is perhaps best known for the work she has done relating to her "Empathics" mythos, which imagines the culture of a society of alien beings who are plant-human hybrids.

Irish Hooley 2016
Palace Theatre
McDonald School of Dance

Price: $10 individual, $25 family (immediate family -- parents and children -- only)
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Irish dancing, bagpipers, raffle baskets, food & beverages available for purchase, the "balloon guy", face painting for the kids, live acoustic music in the bar area, photo slide show, and more.

Proceeds benefit dancers attending the National Championships in July 2016, in Orlando, Florida, as well as the advanced workshops held for our dancers throughout the year.

Second Saturday Series: The Honky Tonk Hindooz
Westcott Community Center

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The Honky Tonk Hindooz hail from high in the Himalachian mountains of the Indian subcontinent. Comprised of upright bass, guitar, accordion, and sometimes drums, the Hindooz play an eclectic blend of psychedelic garage country and weirdo rock and roll oldies from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. They specialize in original countrified arrangements of popular songs by artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, The Kinks, Buddy Holly, and The Clash, all in a jangly, swaggerly Roots-Americana stew.

Student Recital Series: Jonathan Trudell, percussion
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jonathan Trudell, a senior music industry major in the Setnor School of Music, will present a percussion recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Casey Alterio, percussion
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Casey Alterio, a junior music education major in the Setnor School of Music, will present a percussion recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Maria Whitcomb, voice
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Maria Whitcomb, a senior voice performance major, will present a recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Bryan Dickenson
Kellish Hill Farm

Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

*SOLD OUT* Luke Bryan: Kill the Lights Tour

JMA Wireless Dome
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

The Cadleys, with John Dancks
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

New acoustic, traditional roots

Multilingual Open Mic & Book Release
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Celebrating the release of MUSA, a multilingual publication of original work by Syracuse University students, faculty, staff and alumni. Come and enjoy a great night of spoken word and music.

Carnaval Del Mundo
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Dan Butterworth

Price: $10 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will come to Syracuse as part of a brand new North American Tour. Critics are raving that this breathtaking production is "bigger and better than ever before" and features a brilliant new scenic design by Paul Brown, Tony Award-winning original costume design by Maria Björnson, lighting design by Tony Award-winner Paule Constable, new choreography by Scott Ambler, and new staging by director Laurence Connor. The production, overseen by Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh, boasts many exciting special effects including the show's legendary chandelier. The beloved story and thrilling score—with songs like "Music of the Night," "All I Ask Of You," and "Masquerade"—will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making this Phantom one of the largest productions now on tour.

Read a Review!

The Liar
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

David Ives' adaptation of La Menteur by Pierre Corneille. Sparkling wit, intricate lies, and romantic hijinks combine in this clever comedy from one of the world's most influential playwrights.

Read a review!

Passion Play
Redhouse

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hailed by The New Yorker's John Lahr as "extraordinary," "bold," and "inventive," Passion Play takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Sarah Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish.

Read a Review!

The Spitfire Grill: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A soul-satisfying, country-flavored work of theatrical imagination, The Spitfire Grill glows with an abundance of warmth, spirit, and goodwill. A feisty parolee named Percy follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. Aged and troubled, Hannah would like to sell the Grill, but there are no takers in the forgotten town of Gilead. A simple idea proposed by Percy brings new life to the Grill and renewed hope to the people of the town, including one long gone but not so far away. A graceful and compelling story buoyed by soaring and instantly infectious melodies.

Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

Read a Review!

The Christians
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Do you have the courage to change your heart? Pastor Paul is much-loved and much-respected, but he has a difficult sermon to deliver. What will be the impact of his words on his loyal congregation? What consequences for his family? For himself? Playwright-to-watch Lucas Hnath invites people of all faiths, believers and non-believers, to engage in a conversation about the seemingly insurmountable distance between us. Set in a contemporary mega-church and performed as Sunday service with sermons, scripture, and a full choir, The Christians has quickly become one of the most talked about new plays in the country.

Read a Review!

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will come to Syracuse as part of a brand new North American Tour. Critics are raving that this breathtaking production is "bigger and better than ever before" and features a brilliant new scenic design by Paul Brown, Tony Award-winning original costume design by Maria Björnson, lighting design by Tony Award-winner Paule Constable, new choreography by Scott Ambler, and new staging by director Laurence Connor. The production, overseen by Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh, boasts many exciting special effects including the show's legendary chandelier. The beloved story and thrilling score—with songs like "Music of the Night," "All I Ask Of You," and "Masquerade"—will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making this Phantom one of the largest productions now on tour.

Read a Review!

The Sunshine Boys
Central New York Playhouse
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

In Neil Simon's comedy, Al and Willie as "Lewis and Clark" were top-billed vaudevillians for over 40 years. Now they aren't even speaking. When CBS requests them for a "History of Comedy" retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries, and laughs.

Read a Review!

The Liar
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

David Ives' adaptation of La Menteur by Pierre Corneille. Sparkling wit, intricate lies, and romantic hijinks combine in this clever comedy from one of the world's most influential playwrights.

Read a review!

Jeffrey
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Whether catering a ditzy socialite's "Hoe-down for AIDS" or cruising at a funeral; at the gym or at the annual Gay Pride Parade or in the libidinous hands of a father-confessor, Jeffrey finds the pursuit of love and just plain old physical gratification to be the number one preoccupation of his times—and the source of plenty of hilarity. By Paul Rudnick. Mature themes. Presented in association with the Friends of Dorothy House.

Read a Review!

Passion Play
Redhouse

Price: $30
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hailed by The New Yorker's John Lahr as "extraordinary," "bold," and "inventive," Passion Play takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth's England to Hitler's Germany to Reagan's America, Sarah Ruhl's exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish.

Read a Review!

Eurydice
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

The Christians
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Do you have the courage to change your heart? Pastor Paul is much-loved and much-respected, but he has a difficult sermon to deliver. What will be the impact of his words on his loyal congregation? What consequences for his family? For himself? Playwright-to-watch Lucas Hnath invites people of all faiths, believers and non-believers, to engage in a conversation about the seemingly insurmountable distance between us. Set in a contemporary mega-church and performed as Sunday service with sermons, scripture, and a full choir, The Christians has quickly become one of the most talked about new plays in the country.

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The Spitfire Grill: A Musical
Syracuse University Drama Department
Ralph Zito, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A soul-satisfying, country-flavored work of theatrical imagination, The Spitfire Grill glows with an abundance of warmth, spirit, and goodwill. A feisty parolee named Percy follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah's Spitfire Grill. Aged and troubled, Hannah would like to sell the Grill, but there are no takers in the forgotten town of Gilead. A simple idea proposed by Percy brings new life to the Grill and renewed hope to the people of the town, including one long gone but not so far away. A graceful and compelling story buoyed by soaring and instantly infectious melodies.

Musical direction by Brian Cimmet, choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Light Work is pleased to present "Unnatural Creatures: Selections from the Light Work Collection." Curated by Erin Carter, "Unnatural Creatures" features Light Work Collection photographers Kanako Sasaki, Laura Aguilar, and Tony Gleaton, among others, whose images explore the strangeness of being alive. "Unnatural Creatures" presents a coming-of-age story with a twist. Primarily focusing on the female body, the exhibition mines themes of gender, aging, and socialization as thought, feeling and perception converge.

Miki Soejima: The Passenger's Present
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by artist Miki Soejima.

Miki Soejima is a London-based Japanese artist. Soejima's Mrs. Merryman's Collection (MACK, 2012) was the recipient of the First Book Award and is regarded as one of the top photobooks of 2012. Recent exhibitions include The Atkinson Gallery, Southport UK; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London; and World Photography Festival and Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London. Soejima's work is in the collections of the National Media Museum, Amana Photo Collection, and the Jeremy Cooper Collection. Soejima's book is included in The Photobook: A History, Volume III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Soejima was a Light Work Artist-in-Residence in January 2015.

Ben Altman: Site/Sight
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

A solo exhibition of work by Ben Altman.

Since 2013, Altman has visited many sites, memorials, and museums related to atrocity and genocide. At these places, emblematic of the violent histories that have formed our contemporary world, it is almost automatic for visitors to raise their smart phones and cameras. Through his own photographs Altman explores this contemporary action and its implications. He groups his photographs to suggest connections between the locations. Site/Sight is one of several of Altman's projects about intractable modern histories.

Ben Altman trained as an artist by studying physics, towing icebergs, racing sailboats, and working as a commercial photographer. After moving to the United States from his native England in the early 1980s he spent 25 years in Chicago, and he now lives near Ithaca. Altman has exhibited work recently in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Asheville, NC, Fort Wayne, IN, and Syracuse. He was awarded the Houston Center for Photography's 2015 Fellowship, included in the 2015 Critical Mass Top 50, and runner-up in Soho Photo Gallery's 2014 National Photography Competition. His project The More That Is Taken Away is fiscally sponsored by Artspire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and received a Film Finishing Funds grant from the NY State Council on the Arts. In 2014 his Talk Tompkins was awarded an Artist in Community grant from NYSCA. Altman was a resident with 2×2 Collective in 2012 at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. In addition to photography, Altman works with video, sound, installation, assemblage, and participation. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.

Traditions in Flux
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Traditions in Flux features regional artists who use traditional techniques and methods to create innovative contemporary fine art and craft. Participating artists include: original etchings by Elizabeth Andrews, quilts by Sharon Bottle-Souva, woodworking by Barry Gordon, pottery by Stacey Stanhope, metalsmithing by Mark Teece, and cyanotype photography by Jamie Young.

Art Makes Cents: Artwork of the M&T Bank Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibition of historic artwork and fanciful coin banks from the collection of Syracuse's M&T Bank.

A Life in Art: Highlights of Women Artists in OHA's Collection
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit highlights artwork created by local women artists whose work is represented in OHA's collection. The exhibition features over 40 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures ranging from the mid-19th century through the end of the 20th century.

MFA 2016: None the Wiser
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The annual Master of Fine Arts exhibition features 28 artists from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. This year's presenting artists are working in a variety of traditional and multi-disciplinary media including new installations of photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and site-specific experiences.

The themes and concepts presented by the artists in this exhibition vary from illustrative mythology to functional pottery. Artists Chongha Peter Lee and Nan Wang utilize Oculus Rift technology to suspend the spectator in a virtual world, while Alessia Cecchet, Jeremy Santiago-Horseman, and Rachel Rosky create physical environs that are entered into and interacted with directly by the viewer. Psychological realities of memory and perception are explored by installations from Brent Erickson, Jacob Riddle and Shou Yu Chen, and are balanced by the reflection and exploration of personal realities of painter Stefan Zoller and photographer Nydia Blas.

Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Women, War, and a Changing World: Alan Dunn's New Yorker Cartoons," curated by College of Arts and Sciences student Tammy Hong, examines Alan Dunn's New Yorker cartoons portraying the changing role of women during World War II and its immediate aftermath.

[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"[Re] Framed: An Object's Journey Into the Collections," curated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies graduate program, uses recently accessioned works in the SU Art Collection and the SU Libraries to explain the curatorial process that is central to every display.

Everyday Art: Street Photography in the SU Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ranging in time periods, geographic location, and content, this exhibition presents a group of well-known artists, each of whom took their camera to the streets in order to capture visions of everyday scenes the majority of people may not be able, or choose, to see.

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Quiet Intersections: The Graphic Work of Robert Kipniss, curated by David L. Prince, Associate Director of SUArt Galleries, includes 35 works from the Syracuse University Art Collection from a generous gift by Mr. James F. White. The selected images represent Kipniss' work in intaglio and lithography and illustrate the artist's long held graphic interests.

From Paris to Syracuse: Street Photography from the Collections of the Everson and Light Work
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

From 19th-century Parisian boulevards to late 20th-century scenes of downtown Syracuse, the images included in this exhibition explore the many diverse aspects of life in the city: busy shopfronts and beach boardwalks, crowded fairs, and quiet parks and streets teeming with or devoid of human presence. Featuring over 60 works by 22 photographers, the exhibition includes examples by such internationally known figures as Eugène Atget, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau and Garry Winogrand, as well as photographers who have worked locally, such as Toren Beasley, Michael Davis and Bruce Gilden.

Saya Woolfalk: ChimaCloud
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk has spent a decade creating a fictional utopian universe that blends science fiction, fantasy and cultural anthropology. In partnership with UVP and Light Work, the Everson presents the latest chapter in Woolfalk's ongoing narrative including new video and photographic works made while in residency in Syracuse in 2015, as well as previous works that provide an overview of the story to date.

Majestic Mountain | Shining Sea
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Painters, photographers and ceramists alike have found inspiration in the landscape, drawing on the natural world as a subject, metaphor, and creative force. Taking a generous approach to interpreting the genre, this exhibition brings together an eclectic mix of works from the Everson's collection that highlights landscape's enduring hold on the human imagination. Featured are well-known works by Andrew Wyeth and Ansel Adams as well as little-seen pieces by Robert Arneson, Kenzo Okada, Laura Gilpin and others.

Helen Levitt: In the Street
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For more than 70 years, Helen Levitt used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life in the streets of New York City. Levitt's photographs, in both black and white and color, document neighborhood matriarchs on their front stoops, pedestrians negotiating New York's busy sidewalks, and boisterous children at play. In her work, Levitt successfully captures people of every age, race, and class, without attempting to impose social commentary. This exhibition, organized by the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, features a range of photographs spanning Levitt's long career, and includes scenes shot in New York City, New Hampshire, and Mexico.

Responsive Eyes
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5 suggested donation
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art opened The Responsive Eye, a landmark exhibition which featured works by 100 modern artists who used abstract forms to examine how different shapes, patterns and colors could affect the eye of a viewer. Often called "Op Art" due to their relationships to the study of optics and optical illusions, these works appear to move, shimmer or vibrate despite the fact that they are stationary. This exhibition revisits the work of four of the artists included in the seminal survey: Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely, as well as their Latin contemporary Jesús Rafael Soto.

Works by Davana Wilkins
Gallery Apostrophe' S

Gallery Apostrophe' S
1100 Oak St., Syracuse

Le Moyne Annual Student Art Show
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Enjoy a diverse collection of student art, including sculptures, paintings, and photography. Each reflects a variety of experiences and sources of inspiration of the individuals who created them.

For information, call 315-445-4153.

Jazz on Tap: Ronnie Leigh & Marcus Curry
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Spring Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse Youth Orchestra and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra

Price: $10 adults, $5 students 6-18, free for children 5 and under
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Youth Orchestra (SYO) and Syracuse Youth String Orchestra (SYSO) will present their spring concert, which will serve as a celebration for the outgoing senior student-musicians and will also feature the winners of the annual Syracuse Youth Orchestras concerto competition.

The SYO, under the direction of James Tapia, will celebrate its graduating seniors with performances of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story: Selections for Orchestra, arranged by Jack Mason; "The Montagues and Capulets" from Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Second Suite; and George Gershwin's An American in Paris, arranged by John Whitney.

The SYO will also feature four exceptional concerto winners:
* Sarah Bobrow, bassoon, Mozart Bassoon Concerto, Mvt. 1
* Aaron DuBois, trumpet, Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb, Mvt. 3
* Kathryn Kovarik, violin, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Mvt. 3
* Julia Musengo, flute, Chaminade Flute Concertino

The SYSO, under the direction of Karen Veverka, will perform Norman Dello Joio's Air for Strings, the Libertango of Astor Piazzolla, and Chicken Foot Transplant by Matt Turner. The SYSO will also perform Igor Stravinsky's "Dance Infernale" from The Firebird Suite accompanied by wind, brass and percussion musicians from the SYO.

Student Recital Series: Julia Tucker, organ
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Julia Tucker, a graduate organ performance student, will present an organ recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Student Recital Series: Qian Zhao, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Qian Zhao, a graduate piano performance student, will present a piano recital.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If this lot is full or unavailable, guests will be redirected. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Roots of Creation
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

My Fair Lady
Syracuse Opera

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion, the timeless classic My Fair Lady is set in Edwardian London, where Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, encounters Eliza Doolittle, an unruly flower vendor in a street market. The Professor wagers with his friend and colleague Colonel Pickering that he can transform Eliza into a lady by teaching her proper English and enunciation. Eliza agrees to speech lessons and moves into the Higgins household, where the transformation begins. Soon enough, the willful professor is ready to put his experiment to the test by introducing Eliza to the unsuspecting upper crust of London society. A witty, endearing plot and the classic musical numbers that include "Wouldn't It Be Lovely?", "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "On the Street Where You Live."